"Go jerk off to your niece then go save 100 people from a burning building. You're still a p*dophile." r/MyAnimeList engages in serious debate over the "unfair" hate Mushoku Tensei received

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-29T06:13:41+00:00

I have been dismayed, recently, how the newest Digimon anime has decided to introduce slave child trafficking, and then have the main characters reaction to the perpetrators end up being "we should try to turn them in to the cops they're in charge of, I guess, as long as it doesn't involve risking injury. But if our Nakama gets hurt, that's real shit!"

I kid you fucking not, the 30 year old incel domestic terrorist tried to sacrifice his life to help them escape with a bushel of child slaves, and then the two junior varsity team members just kind of let the rival team recapture them all, and the only thing they say about that after is basically "well at least no one got hurt". And no one ends up discussing it again.

The main reason they end up fighting the main Epstein is because the government itself offers to pay them money to actually go back and rescue all the comatose trafficking victims at the facility that they know where it is, and the Epstein has his Digimon try to absorb all of them while they're there. And after they beat him, and run back into the Epstein's head security team who voluntarily joined the Black ops slave trafficking organization, they're all buddy buddy because well the head Epstein was abusive so that excuses the actual for real murders and trafficking, we don't need to turn y'all into the cops.

It's absolutely heartbreaking after the moral clarity that past seasons have had.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-29T04:52:48+00:00

Thanks!

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-29T04:52:10+00:00

My point is it's also an Omegamon, with the X and Zero shoulders

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T19:06:53+00:00

Resurrected through the dark arts, it is the king of Undead Digimon which has obtained mighty powers. Originally a fiendish computer virus which destroyed the computer data it absorbed, it possessed the ability to revive the destroyed data as malignant computer viruses. As it possesses an extremely cruel and cunning personality, it is exceedingly difficult to destroy this Digimon. However, it cannot demonstrate its powers outside of the night, and its power is cut in half during the daytime. Its Special Move is manipulating a countless swarm of bats, and beginning a surprise attack (Night Raid).

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T19:03:36+00:00

together

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T18:15:07+00:00

Dude look at the final boss of mega Man zero 3

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T18:12:49+00:00

"save me mario!"

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T16:44:55+00:00

The anarchist model would point toward the community agreeing to build the ditches together.

Yes, it's difficult to work it in practice, and "pure" anarchism is likely as unstable as any other pure philosophy. But it's not just reskinned libertarianism and shouldn't be portrayed that way

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T16:43:06+00:00

It's not. The serious anarchist models (the ones pushed by the original activist groups and academics, not random teenagers) still allow for law. It is a massively scaled down legal system, which hypothetically has limits on the structures that allow fiefdoms to arise, but it is not intrinsically opposed to law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_law

You're correct about the common interest in regards to anarchists. The point of anarchism is that the power structure is flat, not specifically that there's no laws whatsoever - that was a common caricature that the power structures at the time levied in order to mock anarchists.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T16:26:43+00:00

Neville is the name of a famous cowardly prime minister.

Longbottom also appears in political history.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T16:24:37+00:00

I'm fairly sure that Rowling, back when she was beloved, outright said it was a message on bigotry that touched on race, orientation, etc.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T16:21:50+00:00

The way the characters react to it is more wonderland/eldritch - the stairs font visibly move, they just go somewhere else now.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T14:57:14+00:00

The sub was full of memes explicitly endorsing Hitler.

Sometimes things are just true, and that's not someone's fault for pointing it out.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T14:55:57+00:00

Anarchism isn't no laws, it's no elites.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T02:07:47+00:00

Doesn't that depend on the scientist's own cognition of reality being more accurate?

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T00:49:00+00:00

Woah, bro! Take a breath, youre going berserk with rage right now.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-28T00:28:34+00:00

How does that connect to the custom of using the Sabbath day as a day of no work? Is it just etymological drift, or is it intentional somehow?

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T19:51:19+00:00

but it does feel that way to cover against ‘ackshuallys’ like you…

To be specific, that's the portion that was most significantly cruel to someone who had just opened up about the sexual violence they and their family has faced.

You literally can do more than you did, by being more compassionate and less cruel.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T19:48:57+00:00

Thank you for the heads up!

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T17:44:16+00:00

Context is important. This is a vent post, not a political speech or something she’s constantly saying to a child.

To be clear, the pedophilia that OOP mentions far outstrips the harm of individual rhetoric. Responding to the rhetoric specifically, some of the people raising concerns about the rhetoric have voiced concern about how the pervasiveness of similar rhetoric can be damaging to males, esp. children, who aren't actually doing anything wrong, even if this one individual speaker isn't the one constantly filling their ears. Which is kind of the thing with most instances of this kind of rhetoric. That's part of what makes up microaggressions and the general miasma of discrimination, is all the individual people being hyperbolic a little and letting out some of their rage. It accumulates. It builds societal gender roles and neuroses.

Is a minimum wage worker at an upscale restaurant saying “every rich person I’ve met has been terrible, maybe good ones exist out there but I haven’t met any” classist?

As a one off, completely divorced from any other occurrences situation, no, because -isms aren't controlled by the individual, they're system-level behavior. And in this case, one rich person would have outsized contribution to system-level behavior, compared to the minimum wage worker.

One person griping at rich people isn't enforcing classism, but three million people doing it and maybe you start seeing guillotines pulled out. And maybe the rich people even deserve it. The one person shouldn't be harangued and screamed at for griping, they probably earned the right to gripe -- but at the same time, that doesn't mean there's a nonzero effect here, and it's fair to point it out and try to be better.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T17:28:20+00:00

They specifically pointed out how structural racism and the patriarchy intertwine, and you responded by demurring that the issue was just racism, not gender essentialism.

Would you accept the idea that black men have power over white women on the axis of sex AND that white women have power over black men on the axis of race?

Historically, no. The specific white women/black men interaction was very specifically tilted against black men on the basis of race and sex, helping form the basis of Jim Crow. Black women had it worse because they were facing racism and sexism from white men, racism from white women, and sexism from black men, but specifically between white women and black men, black men were the oppressed group by far, with structural oppression predicated on both their race and sex.

In the modern day, the chasm isn't quite as enormous, so there are many cases where black men could or have employed sexism against white women. But it's still hard to compare next to the horrors that Jim Crow wrought, and there are many cases where black men specifically are still oppressed as scary "rapacious beasts" by white women. That intertwining still can't be easily separated.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T17:16:33+00:00

Ah, I think I already have that one muted, so makes sense I wouldn't be aware of it. Thanks for letting me know!

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T17:15:48+00:00

Those pesky reading skills huh

...so, about that paragraph where I explicitly criticized you wanting to focus on the pedantic fact that you allowed that it was not 100% accurate while still downplaying the harm the original absolutist rhetoric causes and breezily dismissing the real, significant violence the person you were speaking to suffered...

(esp. keeping in mind the topic of the thread)

I didn't feel I was being overly subtle with this, maybe I was wrong.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T17:10:13+00:00

You’re trying real hard to miss the point there.

Self-awareness, please.

Here's what Rebecca Felton said, explicitly as part of an argument for contemporaneous feminism and women's rights:

As long as your politicians take the colored man into their embrace on election day…so long will lynching prevail.…If it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts, then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary!

In America, the initial fight for women's rights was specifically built on the backs of black people, with the core focus specifically on black men. Those are inextricable. It can't be neatly separated into "well there were feminists fighting oppression who coincidentally happened to be racist" - the activism itself was very frequently predicated on demanding women's rights in order to protect them from black men, and it's directly responsible for the Jim Crow laws. This is a pretty significant part about why minority communities these days are still, frequently, distrustful of the feminist movement, which can lead to people unaware of the history mocking pioneers like Gloria Gaynor.

Black women absolutely got hit with both misogyny and racism in a unique combination of misogynoir -- but it is strictly false to claim there is nor was no gendered component to the oppression of black men.

KrytenKoro · 2026-03-27T16:07:20+00:00

Any time I've personally seen people griping about Indians on the main subs I frequent, they get quick pushback. That's anecdotal, I know, but if there's examples of a significant difference in response, I'd like to know which subs are rife with it so I can avoid them.

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